Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

An 1876 wagon trip to Ivanpah, a mining camp in Southern California, brought him to the Las Vegas Ranch. While resting there, Dellenbaugh created the first known painting of the Las Vegas Valley. The Las Vegas Ranch occupied the site of the former Las Vegas Mission, which Mormon settlers had founded in 1855. Today, the ranch site is occupied by convention facilities and the Cashman Field baseball complex. A portion of the structure used during both the Mission and Las Vegas Ranch periods may still be seen at the complex.

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